The cuts, announced in a video call with employees, are a sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Right-wing influencers who were instrumental in spreading allegations of fraud in Minnesota ahead of ICE's surge are now going after a number of California’s social welfare programs. read @makenakelly.bsky.social:

Welcome to a world where America First is coming to mean America Alone, whose friends are searching for alternatives to what increasingly feels like an abusive relationship and whose enemies are gloating. www.wsj.com/world/how-am...

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Former election clerk Tina Peters is a hero to conspiracy theorists, and even received an empty “pardon” from the president. Colorado's governor has held firm against commuting her sentence—so far. www.wired.com/story/donald...

In announcing the primary causes of a fatal collision over the Potomac, the NTSB determined the FAA had designed & approved dangerous, crisscrossing flight routes that allowed an Army helicopter to fly into the landing path of a passenger jet to calamitous results www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

The city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority on Thursday approved incentives for Flint Development's remake of the historic downtown hotel's vacant upper floors with 158 apartments. www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

Families of two Caribbean men killed in boat strikes sue Trump administration

Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Google DeepMind staffers are pressing leadership on their plans to safeguard the 3,000-person unit from ICE agents. "As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?" Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

Our screens may be bursting with graphic images of the ICE occupation, but the bulk of the work is boring, invisible—and absolutely vital. newrepublic.com/article/2057... via @newrepublic.com

The Port Authority of Kansas City may walk away from negotiations with Platform Ventures over hundreds of industrial acres in light of the developer's apparent plans to sell a nearby warehouse for use by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

‘The numbers are just not credible’: Kansas used flawed math to estimate economic impact of Chiefs relocation, experts say thebeaconnews.org/stories/2026...

Columbia Heights Public Schools district officials accused ICE officers of using the 5-year-old “as bait.” A 10-year-old and her mother were also detained. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Many cities don’t know who owns rentals. Some of them say registries have changed how they view housing. stateline.org/2026/01/21/w...

The ordinance, which comes about a week after Kansas City officials across the state line approved a similar five-year moratorium, is specifically related to public concerns over increased activity among federal immigration enforcement in the Kansas City metro www.kansascity.com/news/local/w...

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...

“Our places of healing are under siege,” Dr. Roli Dwivedi, past president of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians, said Tuesday at a state Capitol news conference in St. Paul, where doctor after doctor told of patients suffering amid the clampdown. apnews.com/article/immi...

Three of the world’s best teams — Argentina, England and Netherlands — are reportedly interested in making Kansas City their training home during the World Cup. Organizers say local businesses should start planning to make the most of 650,000 expected visitors. www.kcur.org/sports/2026-...

The world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” that is harming billions of people, a UN report has declared. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

If President Trump follows through with a threat to put new tariffs on European allies over Greenland, some $100 billion worth of American exports—from Boeing aircraft to bourbon whiskey—could get caught in the crossfire. www.wsj.com/business/the...

General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States. But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week. jacobin.com/2026/01/stri...

NEW POST While cities across North America struggle with housing shortages, Edmonton is proving that zoning reform works. In 2025, for the first time in history, the number of homes permitted in 5-8 unit rowhomes surpassed detached homes. 🧵 #yeg #yegcc #yimby www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/zb...

The vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

This going to be a curse for the Dems for a long time, I fear.

A 500-Mile Road Trip Through Scotland Taught Me to Love Whisky in a New Way www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

A federal judge in Minnesota imposed restrictions on the actions of immigration agents toward protesters in the state on Friday, a decision that comes after weeks of mounting tension between demonstrators and federal officers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it. www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

Cool now sell the parking crater they own and don't use

The zoning change is the first regulation on where data centers can be built in Kansas City. Advocates see it as the first step in limiting the AI data center boom. www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

Commerce Bank wants to vacate and sell one of its buildings in Kansas City's Central Business District. www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states. www.wired.com/story/califo...

In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-right interests has evaporated. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

F.B.I. agents conducted a search at the home of a Washington Post reporter on Wednesday, as part of what officials said was an investigation into the possible sharing of government secrets www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Out of 49.5 million voter registrations that have been checked, the department referred around 10,000 cases to Homeland Security Investigations for further investigation of noncitizenship, or roughly .02 percent of the names processed www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there’s no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Trump may take over D.C.’s golf courses. Black golfers are especially worried. 51st.news/trump-take-o...

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

When calamity strikes in America’s busiest national park, who comes to the rescue? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

America’s biggest power grid operator has a problem: The AI industry has a bottomless appetite for electricity, and consumers are furious about rate increases. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Here in Midland, Texas, the Last Thing Anyone Wants Is Cheap Venezuelan Oil www.wsj.com/business/ene...

State & city officials in Minnesota & Illinois filed federal lawsuits against the Trump administration on Monday, claiming that the mass deployment of immigration agents to the Minneapolis & Chicago regions violated the U.S. Constitution & infringed on states’ rights www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

A Prairie Village developer is pursuing its first new-build residential project in Kansas City on a vacant lot near the Midtown streetcar and Country Club Plaza. www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

“Kansas lawmakers have done every NFL team and every pro-subsidy lawmaker everywhere else in the country a huge favor, because now teams can look at the Kansas deal and say, ‘Hey, what we’re asking for is not nearly as bad or as crazy or stupid as what Kansas is offering,’”

Recent projects in Kansas and DC set new records for public funding of professional sports stadiums. stateline.org/2026/01/12/s...

Federal courts have been mixed on whether the bans run counter to a federal law that sets appliance efficiency standards, which the government argues preempts the bans. www.facilitiesdive.com/news/trump-a...

Prairiefire again has defaulted on bonds issued for the Overland Park retail and entertainment development, a little more than two years after falling short on debt issued through Kansas' sales tax revenue (STAR) bond program. www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation’s agriculture business grows hemp without irrigation, insecticides or plowing. Now its product is helping to build a home in Ogden. www.kcur.org/environment-...